Model comparison

Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Medium 3.1

Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #266 Reported

Qwen3 8B

Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 8B leads 16.6 to 10.6.
Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mistral Medium 3.1 and Qwen3 8B specifications
	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
Provider	Mistral AI	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	31.9	33.7
Released	—	2025-04
Weights	Proprietary	Open
Context window	131K	131K
Max output	105K	8K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.40	$0.18
Output $ / M tokens	$2	$0.70
Results tracked	3	11

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
SciCode	—	22.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	42.6%

Reasoning Qwen3 8B leads

Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
NYT Connections (extended)	6.5%	—
CritPt	—	0%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
Thematic Generalization	20.3%	—
DTBench	—	59.7%
LMCA	—	8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	136.17

Math Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	56.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond	—	56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	4.8%

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	62.1%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145), Qwen3 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Mistral Medium 3.1	Qwen3 8B
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1476	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Medium 3.1 better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.1 or Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 131K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.1 and Qwen3 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.